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Gregory R. Black — 78 Patents

Google: 28 patents #600 of 22,993Top 3%
Motorola Mobility: 25 patents #53 of 2,103Top 3%
Motorola: 25 patents #280 of 14,142Top 2%
Vernon Hills, IL: #3 of 549 inventorsTop 1%
Illinois: #312 of 84,256 inventorsTop 1%
Overall (All Time): #23,712 of 4,157,543Top 1%
78 Patents All Time
Gregory R. Black has been granted 78 US patents while listed as an inventor at Google. The first was granted in 1991 and the most recent in January 2025. Gregory R. Black ranks #23,712 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 0.57%). Patent records list Gregory R. Black in Vernon Hills, IL, US.

Patents per Year

Patents granted per year, 1991 to 2025Bar chart with a peak of 13 patents in 2014.peak 131991: 1 patents19911992: 3 patents1993: 1 patents1994: 1 patents19941995: 3 patents1996: 1 patents1998: 1 patents19981999: 5 patents2000: 2 patents2001: 4 patents20012004: 2 patents2005: 1 patents2010: 1 patents20102012: 2 patents2013: 4 patents2014: 13 patents20142015: 7 patents2016: 10 patents2017: 6 patents20172018: 5 patents2019: 2 patents2020: 1 patents20202021: 1 patents2025: 1 patents2025

Issued Patents All Time

Showing 1–25 of 78 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12212348 Controlling impedance matching circuitry Benjamin O. White, Srenik Mehta 2025-01-28
11031988 Performance-based antenna selection for user devices Vimalkaushik Natarajan, Vijay L. Asrani 2021-06-08 $78,001,000
10601491 Performance-based antenna selection for user devices Vimalkaushik Natarajan, Vijay L. Asrani 2020-03-24 $23,869,000
10523292 Closed loop tuning operation with antenna switching Dale G. Schwent 2019-12-31 $9,775,000
10193522 Single port wide band impedance matching circuit with narrow band harmonic bypass, wireless communication device, and method for providing antenna matching Brian H. Bremer 2019-01-29 $9,429,000
10122081 Hand grip sensor for external chassis antenna Vijay L. Asrani, Aaron L. Dietrich 2018-11-06 $23,074,000
10014897 Proximal user detection with measurement receiver Armin W. Klomsdorf, Andrew Pavacic, Dale G. Schwent 2018-07-03 $7,221,000
9979531 Method and apparatus for tuning a communication device for multi band operation Dale G. Schwent, Richard E. Mach 2018-05-22 $26,541,000
9949210 Remedying power drain via a coverage map Timothy M. McCune 2018-04-17 $21,575,000
9935660 Multiplex antenna matching circuit, wireless communication device, and method for coupling multiple signal ports to an antenna via cascaded diplexers Prem K. Ganeshan, Umesh Navsariwala 2018-04-03 $12,292,000
9819376 Proximal user detection with a complex measurement receiver Dale G. Schwent, Andrew Pavacic, Armin W. Klomsdorf 2017-11-14 $16,730,000
9647742 Antenna architecture and operational method for RF test connector reduction 2017-05-09 $15,844,000
9647740 Proximal user detection with a complex measurement receiver Dale G. Schwent, Andrew Pavacic, Armin W. Klomsdorf 2017-05-09 $6,425,000
9596653 Remedying power drain via a coverage map Timothy M. McCune 2017-03-14 $18,129,000
9590686 Maintaining a capacitor dielectric under strain to reduce capacitance variation due to time variant hysterisis effect Armin W. Klomsdorf, Dale G. Schwent, Robert S. Trocke 2017-03-07 $18,761,000
9564676 System and methods for adaptive antenna optimization Thomas D. Nagode, Dale G. Schwent 2017-02-07 $14,197,000
9531418 Tunable inter-antenna isolation William P. Alberth, Jr., Armin W. Klomsdorf 2016-12-27 $12,692,000
9531410 Method for envelope tracking multiple transmissions through a single power amplifier Thomas D. Nagode, Dale G. Schwent 2016-12-27 $12,692,000
9491007 Apparatus and method for antenna matching Vijay L. Asrani, Young Hun Kim 2016-11-08 $11,507,000
9413409 Method and apparatus for tuning an antenna based on unreliable data Robert S. Trocke 2016-08-09 $20,086,000
9407335 Method and wireless communication device for using an antenna as a sensor device in guiding selection of optimized tuning networks Suresh K. Ramasamy, Aaron L. Dietrich, Gustavo Dario Leizerovich, David H. Minasi, Koon Keong Shee 2016-08-02 $22,951,000
9357498 Method and device with dynamic dormancy Andrew W. Lenart, Oleg Y. Klementiev, Valeriy Marchevsky 2016-05-31 $17,733,000
9306613 Variable antenna match linearity John P. Boos 2016-04-05 $19,076,000
9288676 Trusted sensor data unaffected when an application processor operates in an unlocked state Robert S. Trocke, Armin W. Klomsdorf 2016-03-15 $17,367,000
9281849 Method and apparatus for compensating for phase shift in a communication device Armin W. Klomsdorf, William P. Alberth, Jr. 2016-03-08 $21,283,000